The story was first glossed in the 1st century CE lexicon of Diogenianus as The dog in the manger, concerning those who neither themselves use nor allow others to use : insofar as the dog neither itself eats the barleycorns nor allows the horse to ".
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Right of capture, dog in the manger, and it really has nothing to do with whether the work is in the public domain; whoever is speaking policy for NYPL right now has no feeling for the concept, but is only vaguely aware of it as something looking over his / her shoulder.
